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2 giorni fa · The Mary Rose was a carrack in the English Tudor navy of King Henry VIII. She was launched in 1511 and served for 34 years in several wars against France, Scotland, and Brittany. After being substantially rebuilt in 1536, she saw her last action on 19 July 1545.
2 giorni fa · C. J. Sansom 1952-2024. I first heard the name of CJ Sansom some 15 years-plus ago, vaguely listening to the Radio 4 Book Review programme. I was driving home from my work as Chief Executive of the Mary Rose Trust, looking after Henry VIII’s flagship and attempting to build a new museum for the ship and her contents.
1 giorno fa · Henry VIII’s flagship, the Mary Rose, was launched in 1511 and played a significant role in his naval endeavors. However, she sank in 1545 during an engagement with a French fleet. The Mary Rose was successfully excavated and raised from the bed of The Solent in 1982, providing valuable insights into Tudor naval warfare.
4 giorni fa · But perhaps the most innovative section in general terms is the one which follows, which takes us into Henry VIII’s reign. Quite a lot of the examples in the earlier sections are drawn from this reign, though mostly only into the early 1520s, but here we explicitly follow the progress of the new men into the very different world of Henry VII’s son.
4 giorni fa · Skeletons of the Mary Rose: The New Evidence airs on More4 HD at 7:55 PM, Saturday 27 April. Scientists attempt to identify the crew of Henry VIII's flagship
2 giorni fa · She has written twelve novels, most recently SHADOW CHILD, and various non-fiction books. One daughter, Rose, is currently a comedy screenwriters and playwright. Our very own theatreCat Libby Purves reviews Mike Poulton's The Other Boleyn Girl based on the novel by Philippa Gregory now playing at the Chichester Festival Theatre.
4 giorni fa · Basingstoke, Palgrave MacMillan, 2013, ISBN: 9780230276468; 368pp.; Price: £20.00. Theresa Earenfight’s new book, Queenship in Medieval Europe, stresses that the medieval royal court could be a woman’s world as much as a man’s. Responding to historiography that has largely identified the concepts of ‘monarchy’ and ‘sovereignty ...
